Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC iDRAC Service Module 3.4.1 User’s Guide
- Contents
- Introduction
- What’s New
- Supported features—operating systems matrix
- Documentation conventions for Dell EMC devices
- Coexistence of OpenManage Server Administrator and iDRAC Service Module
- Software availability
- Downloading iDRAC Service Module
- Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site
- Software license agreement
- Other documents you may need
- Preinstallation setup
- Installing iDRAC Service Module
- Initial installation of iDRAC Service Module through iDRAC for Windows
- Initial installation of iSM through iDRAC Express
- Initial installation of iDRAC Service Module via iDRAC for Linux
- Installing iDRAC Service Module on Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Installing iDRAC Service Module on supported Linux operating systems
- Installing the iDRAC Service Module on VMware ESXi
- Installing iDRAC Service Module when the System Configuration Lock Down Mode is enabled
- Configuring the iDRAC Service Module
- iDRAC Service Module monitoring features
- Operating system information
- Lifecycle Controller log replication into operating system
- Automatic System Recovery
- Windows Management Instrumentation Providers
- Prepare to remove NVMe PCIe SSD device
- Remote iDRAC hard reset
- iDRAC access via Host OS
- Accessing iDRAC Via GUI, WSMan, Redfish, Remote RACADM
- In-band support for iDRAC SNMP alerts
- Enable WSMan Remotely
- Auto-updating iDRAC Service Module
- FullPowerCycle
- SupportAssist on the Box
- Enabling the In-band SNMP Get feature—Linux
- Enabling the In-band SNMP Get feature—Windows
- iDRAC GUI Launcher
- Single sign-on (SSO) to iDRAC GUI from Host OS administrators desktop
- IPv6 communication between iSM and iDRAC over OS-BMC Passthru
- Enhanced security between iSM and iDRAC communication using TLS protocol
- Frequently asked questions
- Linux and Ubuntu installer packages
Table 1. Supported features—operating systems matrix (continued)
Features Generation Operating Systems
Windows
Management
Instrumentation
Providers
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes No No
Prepare to Remove
NVMe device
through iDRAC.
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes Yes
SupportAssist
Collection
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes Yes
OS and Application
Data
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes
Yes (only for yx4x
and later servers)
Remote iDRAC hard
reset
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes Yes
iDRAC access
through Host OS
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes No
In-band Support for
iDRAC SNMP alerts
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes Yes
Network interface
monitoring support
through Redfish
client
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes Yes
Enable WSMan
Remotely.
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes No No
Full PowerCycle yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes No
In-Band SNMP Get yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes No
Live VIB installation yx3x, yx4x, yx5x No No Yes
SupportAssist-
Anonymous
Collection Report
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes Yes
iDRAC GUI launcher yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes No
IPv6 support yx3x, yx4x, yx5x No Yes No
Auto Dispatch for
selective events
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes No No
SA collection with
selective PII
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x No No Yes
Single Sign-On
(SSO)
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes No
Auto-update iSM
Installation
yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes No
Documentation conventions for Dell EMC devices
The following table lists the documentation conventions for Dell EMC devices.
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Introduction